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Give Your Attendance Tracking a Boost With Custom Roll Types

Tracking attendance is a simple activity for managing participation in classes, meals, trips and other areas of school life. But it’s also an effective way to record vital information about your student's whereabouts to help ensure stude...

Improve Your Schools Security Network With The Checkpoint Manager [New Feature]

A few months ago we released the first version of Checkpoint - an iPad application that schools can use to streamline the check-in/out process. Giving you a clearer understanding of where your students are in real-time.Over the past 5 ye...

What We Shipped In 2017 + 3 New (Mind-Blowing) Features Launching In The New Year 🎉🎉

Last year we released a number of new features and improvements to Boardingware, but 2017 has been even bigger.We’ve added 5 new team members, shipped over 20 new feature updates, and are now helping more than 170 boarding schools to keep..

5 Step Strategy To Care For The Whole Child

Research and best practices all confirm that students require a "Whole Child Approach" in education to be fully prepared for the demands of the 21st century.This means addressing the needs of the whole child. So while academic achieveme...

Introducing A New Way To Create End Of Shift Reports With Activity Feed

You’re just about to finish your shift in the boarding house. But before you can put your feet up, the next person on duty needs an end of shift report to get up to speed with what’s been happening.So out comes the diary, clipboard or go...

Boardingware Is Now Live On Android For Staff, Students And Parents

With the rebuild of our new web-app and “Checkpoint” both being released last month, we’ve finally been able to finish developing one of our most requested features… The Boardingware Android app for staff, students and parents.Our brand...

Our People: Ilia's success story at Boardingware

It’s coming up for a year that our youngest software engineer, Ilia, has been working at Boardingware. As we’re about to look for some new team members, I thought there was no better time to share his success so far. Today I sat down with..

A New And Improved Interface To Empower Your Boarding Management

In this day and age, you need fast, reliable access to your boarding data, so you can keep track of everyone’s movements and account for their safety 24/7.That’s why we created a simpler, more functional system to help you execute world-cla

Introducing "Checkpoint" By Boardingware

It’s no secret that boarding schools are facing increasing pressure to keep track of their students whereabouts, especially when students are leaving school grounds for things like “weekend exeats” or “overnight leave”.But recently, ther...

How To Convince Your School Board To Use Boarding Management Software

So you’re feeling pretty good…Why?Because you FINALLY found a boarding management tool that’s going to transform your life.(Hint: It’s Boardingware)Now all you have to do is… Convince your IT department, finance manager and the rest of y...

Features vs Functionality: How to accurately compare software systems (Free Template)

If you’re in the market for boarding management software, it’s important that you don’t just dive into the first one you see or commit to a software product just because it boasts your checklist of features.When it comes to school softwa...

The Cost of Waiting: 7 Reasons To Implement Boarding Management Software Right Now

When it comes to boarding management, the majority of boarding schools around the world are still using pen and paper, spreadsheets, google docs, email or some clunky legacy software.And most of them have been using the same tools and pr...

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